Wichita eagle., 1887-10-22
regent of sovereigns, tutor Of nations Four
hostile newspapers are more TO be dreaded
than 100 600 bayonetsn

regent of sovereigns, tutor Of nations. Four
hostile newspapers are more to be dreaded
than 100, 900 bayonets."
LOOK AT THEIR RECORD
In land where the national growth has
bordered on the marvellous the increase in
newspapers has been over nine times as great
as the increase in population Their value
has multiplied six times as rapidly as the
country's wealth. In the decade between
1870 and 1880, when the United States went
ahead at steam engine speed, the progress was
only one-third of the progress Of its Journal
ism. There was no part of the advancement
that did not feel the influence of the press
Wherever a new settlement was opened the
newspaper was there to boom its attractions
When the Pacific railroads were being built
the printing press preceded the iron rails and
locomotives. Where a prosperous city in
Dakota now stands newspaper was printed
on q dry goods box before a building had
been erected and before the infant town was
old enough to know its own name.
The newspaper did not wait for the era of
swift transportation or the telegraph or the
telephone. Ii pushed out on its own behalf
1t sent special vessels to England TO secure
early news; it established pony expresses
from Halifax to New Orleans; it gave the
government its first information in the Mex
ican war: it had news schooners lntercepting
boats from Europe. When Daniel Webster
made famous speech in Boston Henry j.
Raymond put printing press and type on a
steamer, got his report, hurried to the boat.
wrote it out and by the time New York was
reached the edition of the paper was ready
for distribution The same thing was done
for other cities A result of all this enter
prise is seen today in our magnificent postal
system. which is indirectly product Of news
paper competition. and to which the news
papers contribute over 81 600 900 year.
Fortunes are spent every day for matter
which costs the reader two cents When
Emperor William made his famous speech
after the battle Of Sadowa, s.. go in gold
was paid for its Transmission to All American
paper When Stanley brought Livingstone,s
letters from the interior OF Africa. $40. O0e
were spent in cabling them When the new
Spanish treaty with this country was signed
at Madrid an American journal got It all by
cable at an outlay Of 900 These are the
larger instances, but they illustrate the news
paper spirit No matter what news costs,
the papers viii have l. They cover this
country with throu<, hness that allows no
guilty item TO esap-. They have sent ex,e-
ditions 10 the Al ctic regions and TO the
Equator, 10 Sibe ma and TO Africa, 70 the
region Of the Eskimo ami to the warm trail
of the nnurdervus Apache. They have ex-
plored subterrrOnean cave-Is and investi-
gated OCEAN wrecks in diving suitS
But DAILY INCIDENT
A few daYs ago I went carefully over one
Of our leading newspapers. IL contained, e1-
clnsive of Vi advertising. - different items
on almost every subject Imaginable Adding
the distan - that the different dispatches
2Oo 600 miles What work al this entailes3 IN
the short space Of dozen hours VIII hare TO
be left 10 tbs Imagination And yet il d
bot a DR. .ly incident Of journalism
A. Il Close q the revolution there were In
this country forty three papers. wboss azzre- .
gate -rculat10n was very low II The thou 4
sands. Wow there are y 600 newspaper pub 4
kcati rs, which print and distribute every
year 800 ispe0o copies, OF over fSo corlses 4
Ter erery man, woman and child Ia .h@ world 4
II you want to carTy out the aggres, you
viii find that the Newspapers Of this coan.ry 4
pri,gr ever vsar the rather conIfortabie total
Of nearIy -sslCt)n 800 words Of matter II
pae person we're 20 read tselTe nours q day.
10 would De good many Thousand years GA
before be gos through this mass II Mr..
Rsder Hagxaris -Shs, the wonderful wouas
- waited 400 ysan for : yocng ~